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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-8PGM-TX5V-P
undetermined
Reference example
This pipe is documented here as an example for study — it is a record in the archive, not an item offered for sale. Everything below is what the piece itself, and the evidence around it, will honestly support.
Original stem
Yes
Faridunhill standing declaration
Stem replaced or re-cut
No
Faridunhill standing declaration
Rim cleaned (no wood removed)
Yes
Faridunhill standing declaration
Refinished
No
Faridunhill standing declaration
Chamber reamed
Yes
Faridunhill standing declaration
Smoked
Yes
owner stated
Facts, not a grade. We do not score a pipe out of ten: a number would rank a restored pipe above an honest one, and restoration is exactly what this hobby prices down. Every line above is checkable by anyone holding the pipe. Lines marked Faridunhill standing declaration rest on our published, dated statement of shop practice (v1.0, 2026-07-29) — not on an inspection of this individual pipe. It is one document, in public, that you can hold us to.
This reference example is a smooth-finished bent billiard produced in Italy under the Viking brand, belonging to the maker's Thor line and carrying the factory shape number 1006. The bent billiard is one of the most enduring configurations in pipe making: it retains the classic billiard proportions — a cylindrical bowl of roughly equal height and shank length — while introducing a downward curve through the shank and stem. The bend shifts the bowl's weight closer to the smoker's jawline, making the shape a traditional choice for comfortable clenching, and it lends the profile a relaxed, rounded silhouette that contrasts with the upright formality of the straight billiard. The smooth finish on this example leaves the surface polished and uninterrupted, presenting the material's natural figure without rustication or sandblasting. Viking is an Italian production marque, and the Norse-themed line name Thor follows a naming convention common among mid-market European factories, in which mythological or heroic titles distinguish finish grades and series within a catalogue. The four-digit designation 1006 functions as a shape code, tying this bent billiard to a standardised pattern repeated across the factory's output — a hallmark of serial workshop production rather than one-off artisan carving. Dating rests on the stampings alone. Italian factory brands of this kind did not employ systematic date codes of the sort used by houses such as Dunhill, so the nomenclature identifies the brand, line, and shape without fixing a year of manufacture.
2024-02-22
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-02-22.
2024-03-11
Sold through Etsy for USD 70. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
5 checklist facts recorded under Faridunhill's standing declaration of shop practice (2026-07-29).
2026-08-28
Honesty pass: statements the source does not support were removed (1 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 70sold 2024-03-11 · Etsy
From 1 recorded sale — this pipe, this day. A single transaction is not a market price, and we will never print one as if it were.
The sample this sits in: Faridunhill has recorded 25 sales of Viking between 2016–2026 — median $44, most falling between $15 and $125.
The date shown is the date of sale, not the date this page was published. Our own transaction record, published free. No buyer appears here — not a name, not initials, not a country. Counted across both of our channels — eBay 2015–2022 and Etsy 2022–2026 — so the series is continuous and a change of marketplace is never read as a change in price.
Nobody leaves empty-handed. If you hold the catalogue page, the dated advertisement, or a hallmarked sibling that closes one of these — or simply own this model and can measure yours — send it in. Contributions are checked, credited to you by name, and the record is updated with the date it changed.
Instagram post, 2024-02-22. Published to a third-party platform on that date and archived since — a timestamp we cannot move. It is evidence that this object existed and looked like this, then.
The photographs are the identity. 9 images of this pipe's grain, stamping and stem are held as its fingerprint. The handle above is only a handle: lose it, and the pipe can still be matched back to this record from its grain.